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The Boeing 737 MAX is a new family of narrow-body jets in development by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, for introduction in 2017. The Russian jet leasing company Aviation Capital Services LLC is expected to order 35 of these new models.

Boeing Co. is developing a broad agreement with the State Corporation Russian Technologies (Rostech) to expand its titanium sourcing agreement with VSMPO-AVISMA Corp. and to supply its 35 of its new 737 MAX commercial airliners, a deal worth an estimated $3.5 billion. The aircraft OEM indicated it expects to invest $27 billion in Russia over the next 30 years, for raw materials and components, engineering services, and other projects.

Rostech is a majority shareholder in VSMPO-AVISMA Corp., a Russian titanium producer that supplies aircraft components to Boeing; and in Aviation Capital Services LLC, a jet leasing company. Ray Conner, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, and Sergey Chemezov, chairman of VSMPO-AVISMA and CEO of Rostech, pledged to work together to grow the relationship between the two companies.

"Rostech has been a reliable and valuable partner to Boeing in Russia for many years, and together we achieve results that allow us to grow our businesses," Connor stated.

VSMPO-AVISMA is the world’s largest titanium producer and has been supplying raw material and titanium parts to Boeing since 1997, through a series of long-term purchasing agreements. It has similar arrangements in place with Boeing rival Airbus SAS.

In one aspect of the discussions, Boeing and VSMPO-AVISMA are considering expanding their current titanium-producing venture, Ural Boeing Manufacturing (UBM), to support production increases for Boeing’s Next-Generation 737.

UBM is a 50/50 partnership in Verkhnyaya Salda, Russia, that machines titanium forgings. Currently, it is installing four machining centers for landing gears produced from titanium beams. Those machines will be in service in 2013.

Also, Boeing and VSMPO-AVISMA aim to continue backing their joint venture Titanium Innovation Center: it has already developed three new technologies used to produce the 787 Dreamliner and Next-Generation 737 jets, and may be used by other Russian aerospace manufacturers, too. These include a new high-strength titanium alloy and a fabrication technology for titanium sheets for super-plastic titanium forming.

Boeing said the two companies would continue developing technologies and alloys to reduce the cost of titanium parts in commercial airplane manufacturing.

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